Our friends on the front porch telling jokes And they swing swiftly towards happier timesExpending lines and finding more energy for the effortAnd getting distance from that front porch spotlightBut us we found peace in shadowsLong enough to see the monsters rise

Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreamsLiving high on yesterday's lieTalking to me about some 0% interestAnd how she got a better deal than the next guy

And the way the lightning shocked us When we were lost and looking down that long missouri highway Your hair was longer then and now I remember

So I can't speak to tell you of the months before I met youAnd the way the truth it locked us Right about the time after the lightning shocked us

When we were young and missing'round that small new england byway Our lives they were sheltered then and I now I rememberWell its not even being about that anymoreI gotta get you down

Those tiny fragments of perfectionThey please me in a time unchangedWhen its not the same beginningOr a long awaited end

If I knew all the words I would write myself out of hereIf I was all the colors I would paint you pretty in gold In a picture so I'm told little sister

So now I'm sold little sisterWhy don't you tell me about the sunsets in sweden And the laws of edenAnd how you were the rock of gibraltarAnd how they called you foxyWell that's another whole box of pandorasThat's another whole box of them ties

Slide your foot off the gas Before we crash right back into the medianIt separates our house from the middle of the streetTalking about our house

Is on the front porch telling jokes And they swing swiftly towards happier timesExpending lines and finding more energy for the effortAnd getting distance from that front porch spotlightBut us we found peace in shadowsLong enough to see a monster die

We all need to find a little space in our daydreamsLong enough and just so longLong enough, just as longJust so long as its long enoughIs it long enoughIs it long enough for meLong enough for me to chew on

If it isn'tIf it isn'tIf it ain't If it don't If it can't Then it won'tAnd that's just the way that it goes